Alrewas, England
'Shot at Dawn' at the National Memorial Arboretum
In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.
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Alrewas, England
In an arboretum with hundreds of memorials to the fallen, this one might be the most poignant.
Wimborne Minster, England
This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Prague, Czechia
Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.
Southampton, England
A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.
Ventnor, England
The UK's oldest theme park slowly slips away.
Newport, England
The Last Home of an Executed King.
Wareham, England
In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.
Poundbury, England
Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.
Goathland, England
Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.
Pickering, England
Mathewsons Auctions is the location for the popular British TV reality show, Bangers and Cash
York, England
The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.
London, England
A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
London, England
Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.
London, England
Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.
Authuille, France
The largest Commonwealth memorial to the missing and dead of the Battle of the Somme.
Rocamadour, France
This medieval village clings to a cliff in southwestern France.
Helfaut, France
This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France
Thousands of flamingos and other bird species flourish in these Camargue wetlands.
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou, France
France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.
Colleville-sur-Mer, France
A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.
Carnac, France
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.